Lights Out for the City on the Hill
The first and most overpowering impression upon seeing a great state suddenly plunged into agony and disarray is sheer disbelief at “how the mighty have fallen”.
The first and most overpowering impression upon seeing a great state suddenly plunged into agony and disarray is sheer disbelief at “how the mighty have fallen”.
Professor Colin Cavell surveys the beleaguered political landscape in the United States. He says one has to go back to the Civil War years to find a comparison to the present political turmoil.
America may possibly be on the brink of its ‘de-coupling moment’ – in shock at the raw revelation of just how undemocratic America has become
The system of totalitarian control, should it ever come into fruition, will have achieved in mere months what fascism could not in years.
On overthrowing the establishment propaganda machine, and doing it now. Save yourselves and you might just save the entire world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated and, in fact, accelerated the sharp inequalities that exist in every society individually, and the world at large.
Flawed humans are often too eager to over inflate information that suits them to build the exciting revolutionary narrative of their fantasies.
Some Federal Reserve officials are calling for tougher banking regulations in order to prevent the Fed’s low interest rate policy from leading investors to take “excessive” risks that will create asset bubbles.
The international, and even the state-by-state, data, have lessons to teach, all of which lessons turn out to be remarkably consistent with one-another, but lots of people, in some countries are simply refusing to learn them.
The next choice on the European continent is a false one – a USSR reborn with a German and French flavor or perpetual debt slavery.